Sue Sylvester, Byron, and Wilson the Volleyball

So, I finished the minor prophets a while ago, but when Dr. Sexson mentioned correlations between Bible stories and modern day fictions, I thought back to the Book of Jonah. Jonah, of Jonah and the Whale fame, goes to Nineveh to tell people God is going to smite them after being coughed up by the whale. Jonah gets butt hurt when God doesn't go all brimstone on their asses and then he somehow ends up in the desert and God gives him a plant. Jonah really loves this plant and then God just takes it away. This scene reminded me of two instances:

1) During Castaway, Tom Hanks really loves Wilson the Volleyball. They're best friends on the island. Then, when Tom Hanks makes a raft and oars away from the island, Wilson becomes dislodged from his perch on the raft and floats away. Tom Hanks' character is absolutely distraught. WILLSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

2) I love the television series Glee. For those of you who don't watch, Sue Sylvester is the cheerleading coach who incessantly picks on Will Shuster, the Glee advisor. In once instance of verbal abuse, Sue tells Will that she is going to bring him a cat from the shelter with whom he'll fall in love. Then, one night, she'll enter him home and punch him in the face. Sue Sylvester is analogous to the Old Testament God, smiting people for no good reason. With lines like 'I don't trust a man with curly hair', 'Sneaky Gays', and moments like this, it's a little obvious the writers of Glee modeled Sue after the asshat that is the Old Testament God.

On another note, the Bible seems to be filled with Byronic heroes. Romantic literature is far and away my favorite genre and Wuthering Heights and North and South are at the top of my Desert Island List. While reading the Bible, I noticed that I saw shadows of some of my favorite Romantic heroes in biblical characters. For those of you reading who don't know what a Byronic hero is, here's the Wikipedia entry. I can't help but think that Lord Byron, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and other writers have somehow inspired by characters like Abraham, Jacob, Lot, Job, and even the representation of God.